Karel Sedláček

Karel Sedláček
Karel Sedláček
Personal information
Nickname	Evil Charlie
Born	17 February 1979 (age 42); Náchod, Czech Republic
Home town	Červený Kostelec
Darts information
Playing darts since	2001
Darts	23 Gram bulls(NL)
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	Rock the Boat by The Hues Corporation
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2007–2017
PDC	2018–
Current world ranking	66 1 (28 November 2021)
BDO majors – best performances
World Ch'ship	Last 32: 2015
World Masters	Last 144: 2013
World Darts Trophy	Last 16: 2014
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship	Last 96: 2019, 2021
UK Open	Last 64: 2021
Players Ch'ship Finals	Last 16: 2020
Other tournament wins
Czech Open	2018
PDC European Tour Eastern European Qualifier	2018
PDC World East European Qualifying Event	2018

Karel Sedláček (born 17 February 1979) is a Czech darts player.

Career[]

Sedláček qualified for the 2014 BDO World Darts Championship playing Paul Hogan in the Preliminary round, losing 1–3. He qualified for the 2014 BDO World Trophy, won in the first round 6-1 over Robbie Green, then lost in the last 16 to Paul Jennings 2-7. He qualified for the 2015 BDO World Darts Championship, playing Paul Coughlin in the Preliminary round; he won 3–2. He lost 1-3 to Glen Durrant in the First round, with the highest average - 99.58 - in all the first round matches, and the third-highest average for a match loser in Lakeside history.

In 2018 Sedláček qualified for the Dutch Darts Championship in Maastricht.^[2] He won the East European qualifier to qualify for the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, his first qualification for that event.^[3]

Following a 3–0 defeat to Keegan Brown at the World Championship, he went on to qualify for the 2019 German Darts Grand Prix in Munich. Wins over Diogo Portela, Ian White and Darren Webster saw Sedláček reach the quarter-finals, where he went down 6–5 to Max Hopp.

Sedláček was also able to qualify for his home tournament, the 2019 Czech Darts Open, where he was eventually beaten in the second round 6-4 by Ian White.

On 18 January 2020, he beat Berry van Peer in the final of day three at European Q-School to win a PDC Tour Card for the first time. Sedláček will play on the ProTour in 2020 and 2021.